Quotes - Bea Benson (Brooklyn, NY) Showing 1-30 of 33

#1

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

tags: kindness, motto

#2

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: love

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#3

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

tags: francis-abernathy, the-secret-history

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#4

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#5

“But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’
Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#6

“In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

tags: donna-tartt, secret-history

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#7

“Cubitum eamus?"
"What?"
"Nothing.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#8

“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

tags: books, culture, literature

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#9

“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

tags: diaries, importance, omissions, truth

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#10

“Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

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#11

“your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

tags: body, food

791 likes

#12

“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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#13

“Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

tags: food

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#14

“Garlic is divine. Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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#15

“People confuse me. Food doesn't.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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#16

“Writing anything is a treason of sorts.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

tags: writing

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#17

“We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

tags: grief

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#18

“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.

Information is control.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

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#19

“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

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#20

“I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

tags: breathing, imagine, imagining, natural, writer

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#21

“It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

tags: grief, imagine, messages, survival, survive

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#22

“I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

tags: friendship, love, partnership

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#23

“Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

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#24

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#25

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: loneliness

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#26

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#27

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel

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#28

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: truth

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#29

“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: imagination

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#30

“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden